JLNobody wrote:As you may know by now, C.I., I don't think there's objective TRUTH "out there"; there is objective REALITY perhaps, but truth is a value we place on the "valid" propositions we make about the nature of reality and the nature of our mental relationship with "it" (i.e., epistemology). Truth is essentially subjective ("in here", in our heads) and inter-subjective (ideas we share with others).
But if there's an objective reality, then surely that reality has a nature? It is a certain 'way'. In other words, certain things are true about it... or certain propositions which we can come up with in an attempt to describe that reality, are true. The propositions themselves might be 'in our heads', but their truth is not subjective. Their truth is their correspondence with an objective reality. That's what I believe, anyway
Quote:However, objective truth and philosophical truth can depend on one's culture also. The "truth out there" is a conglomeration of our perception.
No, objective truth cannot depend on one's culture. That's just a misunderstanding of what 'objective' means. If you don't believe in objective truths, then that's fair enough, but to claim that they are mind-dependent is to misunderstand what the term 'objective' is used to refer to. Objective truths are those truths which do not depend on our culture, or our perception, or anything else about us and our minds. They are true regardless of those things.
The question is whether there actually are any objective truths... I think there are, but I presume that you don't?
